Brewer's: Brown

A copper coin, a penny; so called from its colour. Similarly a sovereign is a “yellow boy.” (See Blunt.)

To be done brown.
To be roasted, deceived, taken in.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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